A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent; with notes of interesting cases, ancient and modern / Translated from the French of M. Jourdain.

  • Jourdain, M. (Anselme Louis Bernard Bréchillet), 1734-1816.
Date:
1849
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases and surgical operations of the mouth, and parts adjacent; with notes of interesting cases, ancient and modern / Translated from the French of M. Jourdain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The Translator began this work with the design of adapting it, by suitable additions and corrections, to the present wants of the Dental Profession, This de- sign he has carried out through the first hundred pages. But he soon found that either the necessary additions would swell the work beyond a reasonable limit, or that they must be made at such expense of the original, as virtually to destroy its character as a translation. He has, therefore, throughout the rest of the work, aimed simply at a clear and concise expression of the meaning of the original, avoiding comment even where he could not coincide with the author in his theories or mode of treatment*. Those familiar with the original will find that certain remedies long since removed from the Materia Meclica, and sundry expositions based upon the theories of the older humoral pathologists, are omitted. The reader is notified where the omission or abridgement is con- siderable: in other cases no allusion is made, nor does the Translator think any apology necessary for passing over that which could possess no interest except as a curiosity of medical literature. %